Gordonstoun: How This Scottish School Won Independent Boarding School of the Year 2021
Gordonstoun, a prestigious boarding school located in Scotland, won the title of Independent Boarding School of the Year 2021Â at our Independent School of the Year awards 2021. Here’s how they came out on top out of over 700 entrants.
Gordonstoun School is situated in Elgin, Moray on the Scottish coast, and was founded in 1934.
After a year which turned students? world upside down, Gordonstoun recognised the need for a different ?three R?s?: a return to campus, a reconnection with nature and a focus on rebuilding resilience.
The school, which famously educated HRH Prince Philip, as well as two further generations of the Royal Family, set about building a mental health recovery curriculum for its 600 pupils in the North East of Scotland. How Gordonstoun Won Independent Boarding School of the Year 2021
Welcome back to Gordonstoun
Planning for students? return after COVID-19 lockdowns, began before term started with Houseparents developing a personalised plan for each student?s reintegration.
Houses were reorganised and empty buildings were refurbished to create homely quarantine bubbles. Once back on campus, a return programme was built around the CHIME mental health recovery framework.
This has been shown to help people recover from mental trauma by focusing on connectedness, hope and optimism about the future, identity, meaning in life and empowerment.
At Gordonstoun, this translated into activities to rebuild friendships, adventures to look forward to, training sen...
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